Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-03-04

fail, in banks that never break! I will take
care of YOU. [ W the cattle on a thousand
hills, and you shall never want" They
have no such divine Savior to say that to
them. 1 do not know how they get along.
Death comes to the nursery. One voice
less voice in the household. One less
fountain of joy and laughter. Two hands
less TO be busy all day. Two feet less to
bound through the hall. Shadow after
shadow following through that household,
yet no Jesus to stand there and say: = am
the shepherd. That lamb is not lost. I
took it of the cold mountains. Ais WE'LL"
Oh, can you tell me the mystery? Can you
solve it? Tell me how it is that men and
m with aches and pains, and sorrows,
and losses, and exasperations, and bereave-
ments can get along without a sympathiz-
ing Christ. 1 cannot understand it.
But I come here to say this morning that
if you really want divine sympathy you can
have it. There are two or three passages oe
Scripture that throb with pity and Kindness
and love. "Cast thy burden on the Lord
and he will sustain thee" "Come unto me
all We who are weary and heavy laden and I
will give you rest" Oh, there are green
pastures where the heavenly shepherd leads
the sick and wounded of the flock. When
all the other trees of the orchard fail, God
has one tree Of fruit for his dear children.
Though the organ walls out its requiem,
there comes aiterward a song, a chart, an
anthem, a battle march, a coronation, q
victory. Do you not want the sympathy pf
Jesus? I offer it this morning to every
man and woman in this house. You need
him. Oh, how much you need him!
There was a chaplain in the army wound
ed unto death. While lying there on the
field he heard at a great distance some one
calling out in great pain: ooh, my Ged!"
and he said to himself: II am dying, but I
think, perhaps, 1 could help that man. Al
though 1 can't walk, I'll just roll over to
where he is" So he rolled over in his own
blood and rolled over the bodies of the
slain, and rolled on until he came to where
the other man was dying, and put, as it
were, his wound against that wound, and
his sorrow against that sorrow, and helped
to alleviate it. And SO it seems to me that
Jesus Christ hears the grean of our sorrow,
the groan of our poverty, the groan Of our
wretchedness, and comes to our relief. He
comes rolling over sin and sorrow to the
place where we lie on the battlefield, and
he puts over us the arm of his everlasting
love; and I see that arm and hand are
wounded, and as he puts that arm and hand
over US l can hear him say: Il have loved
tQCc WILL uA cNClAdollAS 1ONc. Ou3 luul
you might feel this morning the power and
coincidence of a sympathizing Jesus.
Further, l remark: The last great INSTALL
ment paid for our redemption was the de-
mise of Christ. The world has seen many
there was a very dark day when the sun
was eclipsed. The fowl at MONDAY went
to their perch, and we felt q gloom as We
looked at the astronomical wonder. 1t was
a dark day in London when the plague was
at its height, and the dead with uncovered
faces were taken in open carts and dumped
in the trenches. 1t was a dark day when
the earth opened and Lisbon sank; but the
darkest day since the creation of the world
was the day when the carnage Of Calvary
was enacted. 1t was about moor when the
curtain began to be drawn. 1t was not the
coming on OF a night that soothes and re-
freshes, it wa the swing of q great gloom
all around the heavens. God hung it. AS
when there is a dead one in the house YOU
bow the shutters or turn the lattice, SO God
in the afternoon shut the windows of the
world. AS it is appropriate to throw q
black pail upon the coffin as it passes
along, SO it was appropriate that everything
should be somber that day as the great
hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the
corpse of the King.
A mans last hours are ordinarily kept
sacred. However you may have hated OF
caricatured q man, when YOU hear he is
and you would have a loathing for the
man who could stand by a deathbed max
ing faces and scof6ng. But Christ in his
last hour cannot be left alone. What.
pursuing him Yet, after so long a pursuit!
You have been drinking his tears. do YOU
want to drink his blood? They come up
closely, SO that, Notwithstanding the dark
ness, they can glut their revenge with the
contortions Of his countenance. They ex-
anime his feet. They want to feel fol
themselves whether those feet are really
spiked. They put out their hands and
touch the spikes, and bring them back wet
with blood, and wipe them on their gar
ments.
If q man is in no pain, if he is %prospered,
if he is we'll, and he asks you to come, you
take your time and you say: Il can't come
now. I'll come after q while. There is
no haste" But if he is in want md trouble
you say: II must go right away. I must
go now." To-day Jesus stretches out be-
fore you " wounded hands, and He begs
you to come. Go and you live. STAY
away and you die. Oh. that to Him who
bought us we might give all our time, and
all Il prayers, and all our success! ]
would we could think of nothing else but
come to Christ. He is SO fair, He is SC
loving, He is so sympathizing, He is sc
good, I wish we could put our arms around
His neck and say: Thine. Lord. will I be
for ever" Oh, that to-day YOU would begir
to love Him! Would that 1 could take
this audience and wreathe it around the
heart of my Lord Jesus Christ.
When in 1865 the Atlantic cable was los,
do you remember that the Great Eastern
and the Albany vent out to find it? Thirty
times they sank the grnpple two and a hall
miles deep in the water. After awhile they
found the cable and brought it to the sur.
face. No sooner had it been brought te
the surface than they lifted a shout Of ex-
ultation, out the cable slipped back again
into the water and was lost. Then for two
weeks more they swept the sea with the
graphing hooks, and at last they found the
cable and brought it up in silence. They
fastened it this time. Then with great ex.
element they took one end of the cable tc
the electricians room to see if there were
really any life in it, and when they saw q
spark and knew that a message could be
sent, then every hat was lifted, and the
rockets flew and the guns sounded until all
the vessels Oh the expedition knewt the work
was done, and the continents were dashed
together. Well, my friends, Sabbath after
SABBATH we have cOme searching down fol-